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</style>  <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">I have updates about my relationship status and I'll be posting about it soon, but this post is a reflective one, about one of the many matrimonial proposals that came my way, only to go nowhere.&nbsp; Only, this one went nowhere really fast!<br /><br />I'd had a conversation lasting all of three and a half minutes with this girl at dad's insistence and it had ended abruptly because she had to leave to join her friend on a crucial shopping expedition.  She said we could probably speak later.  My phone is generally unreachable when I'm at my desk and this girl decided to mail me after trying my number without success.  The mail read thus: <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><strong><em>Hi prashanth,<br />&nbsp; how r u hope ur 5n ,nd sorry i could n't speak 2 u properly in the noon, actually it was ma lunch break nd my colleague was forcing me 2 accompany her so plz dnt mind okay:) yup then i ve sent a request 2 u in gtalk.. take care cya:)</em></strong>  <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Now, you might question whether it is really fair on my part to judge a person by their writing or language skills <strong><sup>*</sup></strong>, but for me it was clear.  This was not an sms or a tweet but an email!  I wouldn't have minded poor language but this was no language!  If anything gets my goose, it's smsese, and if anybody  sends me an email in smsese, I see red.  Clearly, this person was so addicted to texting that she could not even decide where it was appropriate and where it wasn't.  <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">My mind cut to the future and I imagined my wife sending me a message/mail like this:<br /><em><strong>Bb n8 k. Tkg 2 dctr. Ttyl</strong> <sup>**</sup></em>!&nbsp;  (Baby not feeling ok.  I'm talking to the doctor (over phone? in person?)/taking him/her to the doctor.  I'll talk to you later).&nbsp; Way too ambiguous and far too taxing on my brain to decipher it. I immediately cringed.  I knew that there was no way in the world that I could ever connect with somebody like that.   A casual look at her orkut profile and group subscriptions (she'd sent me an invite) confirmed my fears.  I sent her a mail saying:    <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><strong><em>Hi! &lt;name&gt;,</em></strong><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><strong><em>Thanks for your mail. I did see your orkut profile and I don't think we have anything in common.  I wish you the very best of luck in finding somebody compatible.</em></strong><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><strong><em>Cheers,<br />Prashanth.</em></strong><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><strong><em>PS: Do you always use sms language even in email? Please don't take it personally but I found it very distracting and even irritating.</em></strong>  <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />I got this mail from her in reply:   <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><em><strong>Alri8 5n no issues wish u d best 2 bye!!</strong></em>  <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">My mind seemed to shout at me &quot;I rest my case!&quot;.<br /><br />* <lj user="deponti"/>&nbsp;was initially critical about my judgment too.<br />** This was a message I actually composed and sent to <lj user="deponti"/>&nbsp; to convince her why it was not such a trivial thing after all!&nbsp; She agreed it was non-trivial!</meta></meta>